51.0500° N, 13.7398° E
DRESDEN
Most Famous People Born in Dresden, Germany
- Notable people
- 3,353
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1904
- Most distinctive
- Art Historian 5.8×
A Saxon court city whose distinctive shelves are art historians, sculptors, conductors, theologians, and painters — the trades of a baroque royal city whose Gemäldegalerie, Staatskapelle, and Frauenkirche have shared the same Altstadt for three centuries. The 18th century is unusually heavy here, the age of Augustus the Strong, and the modern bench is dominated by Gerhard Richter and a generation of artists who came of age between the Allied firebombing and the fall of the Wall.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Dresden during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dresden Is Known For
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Politician is Dresden's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (321).
Dresden over-indexes on art historian — 5.8× the global rate.
Dresden under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dresden's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Theodor Körner (author)
1791 - 1813
Moritz Hauptmann
1792 - 1868
Princess Amalie of Saxony
1794 - 1870
Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799–1832)
1799 - 1832
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann
1797 - 1873
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony
1796 - 1865
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
1797 - 1855
Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann
1796 - 1840
Philipp von Brunnow
1797 - 1875
Wilhelm Adolf Becker
1796 - 1846
Alexander Ulybyshev
1794 - 1858
Carl Götzloff
1799 - 1866
Carl Gottlieb Peschel
1798 - 1879
Ferdinand Pettrich
1798 - 1872
Johann Ludwig Choulant
1791 - 1861
Gustav Adolph Hennig
1797 - 1869
Moritz Naumann
1798 - 1871
Joseph Rastrelli
1799 - 1842
Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau
1799 - 1862
Eduard Heinrich Gehe
1795 - 1850
Karl Eduard Otto
1795 - 1869
Karl Gustav Nieritz
1795 - 1876
Mauricio Carlos de Onís y Mercklein
1790 - 1861
Louis Cambecq
1795 - 1859
Carl Augustin Grenser
1794 - 1864
Carl von Kaskel
1797 - 1874
Johann August Heinrich
1794 - 1822
Carl Friedrich August Dathe von Burgk
1791 - 1872
Ludwig Cauer (Pädagoge)
1792 - 1834
Friedrich von Friesen
1796 - 1871
Eduard Heinrich von Treitschke
1796 - 1867
Eduard von Nostitz und Jänckendorf
1791 - 1858
Ernest Krähmer
1795 - 1837
Karl Gottlob Prinz
1795 - 1848
Karl Gustav Adalbert von Weissenbach
1797 - 1846
Eduard Heinrich Heydenreich
1790 - 1883
Moritz Tettelbach
1794 - 1870
Pauline von Brochowska
1794 - 1853
Ernst Christoph August von der Sahla
1791 - 1815
Christian Ernst Stölzel
1792 - 1837
August Ferdinand Axt
1796 - 1855
Wilhelm Vörtel
1793 - 1844
Caroline Friedrich
1793 - 1847
Johann Friedrich Ernst Stange
1797 - 1861
Henriette Heber
1795 - 1869
Friedrich Leopold von Heintz
1790 - 1875
Gottlieb Göttlich
Born 1798
Karl Theodor Kunz
1791 - 1863
George von Brunnow
1796 - 1845
Alessandro Gonzaga, principe di Castiglione
1799 - 1875
Karl Krägen
1797 - 1879
William von Seckendorff
1799 - 1863
Otto von Ende
1795 - 1856
Franz Adolph von Treitschke
1793 - 1848
Adolf Verlohren
1794 - 1854
Friedrich August von Mensch
1798 - 1881
Heinrich Linstedt
1795 - 1821
Albert Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt
1797 - 1860